Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-25
VERGENNES

Trade was light in Nergennes saturday.
F. X. Haven is busily engaged in ia
king an account of stock.
Ice cutting is still engaged in, and the
ice is of good quality.
The hay market is not over brisk this
season. Prices range from IS to 50 per
ton.
Harvey Adams, who has been low with
fever, was able to be moved out of the
sick room Saturday.
On Monday last G. II. Sprigg & Co.
shipped from this station ten cows and |
% calves to Boston market.
Shippers are not able to get cars when |
they want them. the Central Vermont |
being crowded with work.
VIM. Il. Dalrymple will take posses
sion, about April l, of the store vacated
by the Barnard Bros, Sherman block.
Vergennes none for speculation. Regu-
lar customers, only, can be accommodate
ed.
G. II. Sprigg & Co. shipped, last week,
from this station for Boston market,
eleven cows, sixteen calves and seventy
sheep.
Loyal w. Spaulding has been w Aaied
permission to run Il ferry, for ELI wears,
from BARRIERS Point to Westrort, NJ Y,
by the New Y ork legsla ,ura now sn SOS.
sion.
10 was handsom C pug. bat cholera
morbus claimed hi ~, and SO he has con,
where all good p ags go. Tug 10 No.
has arrived, ar d in point of looks ant
style discounts No. /; SO Miss Nellie i,
happy.
Although the backbone of winter il
reported broken, the sewage edg,
abound' in strong winds and damp snow
stormFs, During the last ten days owe
one DOT of snow has fallen. Sleighin!
lis good, and the wood-choppcrs, tn
: drawers of logs and the saw-mills are al
: Ousy, in consequence.
-, II. a. Hale, photographer, left Yer
- gennes for Kecne, n. H., Tuesday morn
l. ing. lie has had quite successful busi
~ ness run here. 5. III. McLaughli
y succeeds him, whose work is greatly su
. perior to many who take up the business
9Ilwithout artistic skill or mechanical &C
. MUS. Mr.. Mclaughlin has both and wi
give satisfaction.
]" Lawrence Austin was the owner of
very fine span of matched horses Monda
/ morning, but he incautiously drove on t
the creek, south side, below the falls
TO Monday afternoon, when the ice brok
and they went through. Mr.. A. was abb
in to keep the head of one of his horses OF
of the water, but the other drowned bt
a fore help came. The animal was value
at 5000.
no The sad intelligence is received of til
death Of Mrs. Clara (Converse) Goeble
of St. Louis, Feb. A. Less than thre
. years since she left Vergennes to resid
with her aunt in Cleveland, Ohio. He
- sudden death is a shock to a large crcl
81 here and in Panton, who cherish he
memory as one of the most amiable {
ed her sex. She was the eldest daughter {
st Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Converse of PantoI
Capt. Thos. 5. Bunker of Clay Centr,
g Kansas, died Feb. Nth, in the 18th year
- his age. He was well known to man
of the readers of this paper. II
er married Miss Sarah Z. Curtis, sstt
r, of Chas. E. Curtis, Vergennes. Cap
Bunker was a native of Vermont. br
en- early moved to Ohio. lie was membo
n of the legislature in his adopted Stat,
\. and commanded company during til
war of the rebellion. lie leaves thrC
FL children, two daughters and son. Mr.
as Bunker died several years ago.
as +. X. Haven has never given his friend
and neighbOrs the benefit of his wester
lie trip, made in the interest of temperate
r. and Republicanism. He should give us
a talk. At the temperance convention
held at Middlebury last week, he wa
IT. called upon to speak on the subject, Blu
m very properly declined, because unde
,g the circumstances it would have led to a
TX :.
g. Improbable discussion. But his fellow
h citizens here are entitled to n brief revie'
8. of incidents, persons and places, and tn
character and probable result of the cor
vention of which he was member.
i COUNTY AND VICINITY GLEANiNoS.
Mrs. Marina Wright of Bridport is rt
ed ported IN good health. She is lOl wear